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Paul Galbraith | 1 Jun 2004 01:02

Reset sound card in alsa?

Every once in a while when I boot my machine, my sound card only 
produces noise and I need to reboot again to get it cleared up.  Does 
anyone know of a way to reset (for lack of a better word) my card so 
that I don't need to reboot the machine?  I'm using 2.4.25 kernel with 
sarge alsa packages.

Cheers,

Paul
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Paul Johnson | 1 Jun 2004 01:03
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Re: Exim4 frozen messages

Aryan Ameri <a.ameri <at> linuxiran.org> writes:

> Basically, when I send a message, kmail passes it to exim, but exim
> doesn't send it. mailq shows that the message is frozen. I read the
> exim man page and it seems that exim automatically freezes messages
> that it seems are spam (am I right?). Well, I don't know why exim
> thinks that my messages are spam.

exim freezes messages whenever it is unable to send the mail or bounce
it back.  You might want to run eximon and try thawing the message and
seeing what the error is and posting what it outputs...

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p80 | 1 Jun 2004 01:10
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Re: Mozilla makes KWM switch desktops

on kcontrol go to Desktop/window behaviour/advanced and then change "focus 
stealing prevention level" to none, low, normal, high or extreme whichever 
solves your problem :)

hope that helps

p80 

On Tuesday 01 June 2004 12:27 am, Jürgen A.Erhard wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I've googled a bit, but nothing seems to hit.  Maybe I'm not using the
> right words ("please" is obviously not the magic word here).
>
> I start loading a page in Mozilla (like with the middle mouse button),
> switch desktops to do something else while it loads, and KDE switches
> back to Mozilla's desktop when Mozilla updates the page without me
> doing anything.
>
> This is, obviously, *very* annoying.
>
> I have, at this point, no idea who's the culprit.
>
> Oh, versions:  KDE 3.2.2, mozilla 1.6-6 (1.6-7 upgrade in the q).
>
> Anyone have any hints as to which part I have to tell what to make it
> stop behaving like that?
>
> Bye, J
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Bob Proulx | 1 Jun 2004 01:07
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Re: Problems with $PATH and KDE

martin f krafft wrote:
> c.f.: http://bugs.debian.org/250765

  Summary:
    On all KDE systems I administer, ~/.bash_profile is never read.
    Thus, any entries in there -- quite a few in the case of
    a programmer -- are never read. I think this is because KDM never
    spawns a login shell, and Konsole doesn't either. Could this please
    be fixed? There are a lot of reasons why kdmsession or the like
    should be started as a child of a proper login shell.

The implementation for different users with bash, csh, zsh, ksh, some
other weird shell, is probably not impossible but I can't think of a
way to handle it cleanly.

This is an upstream FAQ:

  http://www.kde.org/documentation/faq/configure.html#id2913380

  Summary:
    9.7. KDE (kdm) does not read my .bash_profile!

    The login managersxdm and kdm do not run a login shell, so .profile,
    .bash_profile, etc. are not sourced. When the user logs in, xdm runs
    Xstartup as root and then Xsession as user. So the normal practice
    is to add statements in Xsession to source the user profile. Please
    edit your Xsession and .xsession files.

They purposefully avoid reading the user's environment.  When you
select KDE you select *only* KDE and nothing else but KDE.  I imagine
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Paul Johnson | 1 Jun 2004 01:08
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Re: Easy to use Mail Spam/ Content Filter?

Steve Lamb <grey <at> dmiyu.org> writes:

> Paul Johnson wrote:
>> Just hitting delete is considered harmful with spam (you should be
>> reporting it).
>
>     We've gone over this, Paul.  So far you have not volunteered to report
> spam for the rest of us since you feel that we're just as bad as spammers for
> not spending our every waking hour reporting spam.

I don't understand where you get the impression that I expect
everybody to spend every waking moment reporting spam.  It's really
not that hard, spamcop.net speeds it up.  If you're a paying member,
you even have access to quick reporting, which is practically
fire-and-forget.  "I don't have time" isn't an excuse anymore.

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Mal Beaton | 1 Jun 2004 01:32
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Re: Best UPS for Linux?

I use apc bk500ei USB UPS

there is a util called apcupsd that controls the UPS and works very well

Thomas H. George wrote:
> I must replace my Belkin UPS which was damaged by a power surge.  I have 
> been happy enough with it and the Bulldogdry software for linux.  Its 
> internal software got fried when we were hit by a lightning indiced 
> [pwer surge but the computer behind it was uscathed.
> 
> I ask the question, "What is the best UPS for Linux."  only because in 
> response to a recent posting someone asked why I didn't buy a UPS from a 
> manufacturer which explicitly supported Linux.  I checked five different 
> manufacturers at CompUSA and ran several google searches.  Every UPS I 
> found, Belkin included,  explicitly supported only Microsoft and 
> MacIntosh.  Belkin, I know, does include shutdown software for Linux 
> although there is nothing to this effect on the box.  Based on my 
> experience I will stick with Belkin unless someone can point me to a 
> manufacturer with the courage to put "Supports Linux" on the outside of 
> their boxes.
> 
> Tom George
> 
>
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tjm3 | 1 Jun 2004 01:52
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mozilla 1.6 offline/online?

Not strictly Debian related, but,

How do I get rid of the start-up window for mozilla 1.6 that
asks whether to start online or offline.  I just want it to
default to online without having to choose.  I've been looking
for an hour and the answer continues to escape me.

thanks,
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Steve Lamb | 1 Jun 2004 02:01
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Re: Easy to use Mail Spam/ Content Filter?

Paul Johnson wrote:
> I don't understand where you get the impression that I expect
> everybody to spend every waking moment reporting spam.  It's really
> not that hard, spamcop.net speeds it up.  If you're a paying member,
> you even have access to quick reporting, which is practically
> fire-and-forget.  "I don't have time" isn't an excuse anymore.

    Simple math, really.  Several thousand spam a day times a minute or two to
report each one means no time left for anything else even at peak effciency.

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Ross Tsolakidis | 1 Jun 2004 01:50
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advice on finding the vulnerable code on webserver

Hi all,

One of our webservers seems to get compromised on a daily basis.
When I do a ps ax I see these processes all the time.

18687 ?        S      0:00 shell
18701 ?        Z      0:00 [sh <defunct>]
18704 ?        T      0:00 ./3 200.177.162.185 1524
18705 ?        Z      0:00 [3 <defunct>]

And if I check the /tmp dir there are strange executable files in there
that are owned by www-data.
Such as ./3 and others like ./bdshell.
Definitely some sort of Trojan.

When I did a virus check first time it showed that it was infected with
the old Linux.RST virus, it basically stuffed the entire /bin directory.

I did a rebuild, virus checked all client files on a different server,
then copied them back.

After a week, same thing.
Infected.

/tmp/sl# ls -al
total 452
drwxr-xr-x    2 www-data www-data     4096 Jun  1 09:32 .
drwxrwxrwt    3 root     root         4096 Jun  1 09:37 ..
-rwsrwsrwt    1 www-data www-data   446714 May 29 05:12 ps.htm
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Allan Wind | 1 Jun 2004 02:14

Re: Best UPS for Linux?

I got a Powerware 5125 with a connectUPS card (web server/snmp), and
works great but I have not setup any automated shutdown software yet.

/Allan
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